Advances in metallic materials processing

Besides chemistry, processing route influences the microstructures and properties of metallic materials significantly. The emerging processing (fabrication) routes capable of tailoring the microstructures and hence properties of metallic materials include semisolid processing, spray forming, melt spinning, and laser materials processing. Although the present issue was initially proposed to present the articles based on all novel processing routes and its status on understanding the properties of materials, however, the topics and papers are not extensive representation of all the areas of advanced metallic materials processing. Furthermore, advanced processing of nonmetallic materials like polymeric materials is also included in the special issue. The special issue contains eight papers, out of them three articles present research works related to semisolid processing and five contributions on laser materials processing including one on processing of polymeric materials.